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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Don't forget those magic underpants. All religion is bullshit, but Mormonism takes it to another level.
Thankfully, most of Asia, besides the Indian subcontinent, has done a great deal to arrest its population growth. Even the Indian subcontinent has made some progress.
Cochamamba! Seriously, watch "The Corporation." It's happened in South Africa and elsewhere.
There were actually quite a few WWII-era ships still in service in 1982, not least a couple of carriers in the US Navy. The Belgrano had been refitted with modern missiles, and a salvo from its 6-inch guns could have destroyed any British ship.
Yes, Thatcher is still loathsome.
I don't like Pelosi's wearing of the headscarf, but at least she didn't wear it elsewhere in Syria, as far as I know. I hope lots of people saw those images, and somebody made the connection: Syria is a secular state, and women aren't required, de jure or de facto, to wear those odious rags on their heads.
We need a new assault on religion... all religion.
The Onion once had a little box that listed the most popular baby names in the U.S., subdivided by ethnic group. The most popular white names were the sorts of names mocked by some of the earlier letters, the Asian names sounded like white names from a couple generations ago (Henry, Jennifer) and the black names sounded like pharmaceuticals, or, in the case of Propecia, actually are pharmaceuticals.
I though it was funny.
Then you'll understand the title.
I really hate the your/you're mistake.
I just recently watched "The Beauty Academy of Kabul." I don't know if this is the same school, but if not, it's a very similar, highly relevant story.
Apparently there's a big music scene in Pakistan these days. I'd love to see some tough Pakistani rocker chicks smash these self-hating bitches.
I know it's a joke! Somebody else didn't get it, and I was explaining.
It would have been a better statement without the god-talk, of course.
Can we attack her for being a woman who works against women's rights, and particularly for being an anchor baby who promotes the kinds of economic and foreign policies that have so harmed her parents' country of origin?
"We Come Here Because You Go There." That was the slogan of immigrants, legal and otherwise, in Britain in the 1970s. It's even more applicable here and now. The point is that the economic and foreign policies of rich countries often make life unlivable elsewhere, leading to massive population transfers.
If we want to prevent these transfers, we need to change the policies, which should be pretty easy to do, especially because they don't benefit many of us either. Let countries develop like the Asian Tigers or Israel (and others) did, stop forcing Structural Adjustment Programs and "free trade" on them. Alternatively, treat them the way the European Union treated Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and other poorer countries when it brought them in to the Union: they were showered with an infrastructure blitz that dragged them into the First World and prevented massive emigration.
Make Trade Fair! There are no Illegal People!
Do you believe that the "souls" of the aborted just go to some perfect, eternal "heaven?"
You don't really believe that homosexual couples have rights equivalent to heterosexuals, do you?
You reminded me of that quote from The Onion: "Me no believe in evolution. Me think evolution evil Communist plot. Me go find woman now, make little me."
That woman should not have died like that, instead she should have been put out of her misery, painlessly and quickly.
As usual, almost everybody misses the point, and begs the following salient questions:
Why does religion get a free pass? Why should we respect and be "tolerant" of powerfully retrograde forces? Why do people come to places like Canada and still wear odious rags on their heads? What's preventing them from getting with the secular program in that province? Don't they realize that nothing bad will happen if they don't wear those things? If we must have states and other such authorities, is it not the duty of those authorities to enforce and ensure modernity?
Those bombs weren't exploding in Baghdad before 2003, though bombs were falling on that country from the air with some regularity. Iraqi Christians were free to do their own thing under the country's secular government, and anyone who had a problem with it risked a long talk with the Mukhabarat if they tried to act on it.
Why does your faith matter when hard science and common sense show it to be wrong, repeatedly? Religion has a remarkable ability to shut down common sense and critical thinking (in people where these things existed to begin with.) Why would someone choose to be gay? Because they want to get bullied? Even if they did choose this, how does it hurt anyone?
There is one way to prevent aging, and I intend to exercise it. It's the Ernest Hemingway/James Whale/Hunter S. Thompson/Sara Teasdale option. Of course, I hope it doesn't come to it, but after watching all of my grandparents go through hideous second childhoods, I have resolved not to let that happen to me. Of course, the use of bullets isn't fair to the cleanup crew, but I digress.
Tunisia's first president was a man named Habib Bourguiba. He called the veil an "odious rag" and the government today discourages it strongly. Turkey (and Azerbaijan, I think) is similar in this regard.
I'm continually amazed that these issues even exist. Why do women want to wear those things? "Modesty" does not mean covering up your entire hair and then some! Why did an realier post refer to their religion as "empowering?" Religion doesn't empower anybody; it fools, it deludes, and it kills critical thinking. Sam Harris is right when he says that those of us who are not religious have a hard time understanding that people really do believe in this stuff.
Then why do lesbians have such low STD rates?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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